After Midterm Elections, a Focus on Securing Campaigns

NextGov: The Homeland Security Department and a cybersecurity non-profit plan to ramp up efforts to share cyber threat information and best practices with political campaigns after the midterm elections conclude next week.

The Center for Internet Security, or CIS, which manages a cyber threat information sharing program between the federal and state and local governments, hopes to begin offering similar services to political campaigns, the organization’s executive chairman John Gilligan told reporters Tuesday.

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